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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Hanging with the Hummingbirds

Yesterday afternoon I restocked all the hummingbird feeders and then I pulled up a comfortable chair and sat and watched them. They are fascinating to observe as they dart from their perches to the feeder. Once in awhile one would break off and feed on Lenore's roses or some of the flowers that we have planted down the hillside. As they fly there are flashes of white, emerald green, ruby red and brown. It's just beautiful! As usual there were plenty of skirmishes and fights over the feeders even though I have ten of them. After a bit I noticed that they were landing and fighting over one particular perch. I went back inside and grabbed my camera. I sat down on my chair with the tripod in front of me and focused it on the perch where they were landing. I started about fifteen feet away and slowly over the course of about half and hour I moved my chair closer and closer to the perch until I was roughly eight feet away. I ended up with a lot of of really nice hummingbird images. May you have a lovely Sunday. God's love and blessings to all, chris All images were created with a Canon 7D MkII camera and a Tamron 150-600 mm G2 lens. Fill flash was provided by a Canon 500 EX flash set to -2 stops.

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I am the author of the book. Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography published by Rocky Nook Publishing. I'm a generalist when it comes to photography. If I were to say I have a specialty it would be wildlife. I have been shooting stock since the early eighties. My images have been on the covers of "Mule Deer Magazine", California Hunter" and used in "Big Game Adventures", "Whitetail Bowhunter", North American Hunter and a book "The Best of North American Hunter". My work has been used on websites, calendars and videos. I use Canon EOS Digital cameras for my work. I have been a long time user of Canon cameras and lenses. I am most always willing to help others with photography as I love helping others learn photography.

One of my goals is to further spread the word of the Lord Jesus Christ through photography. Jesus is my Lord and savior and I place all my trust in him. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son to save it. He who believes in him shall have eternal happiness with him in heaven.